But as you can see, there's already a flier circulating online announcing the sixth annual Musink Tattoo Convention and Music Festival, slated for March 8-10 at its regular location, the OC Fair & Event Center.

Unlike in past years, when music attractions have been divided between old-school stalwarts and metal upstarts, this time it's virtually wall-to-wall punk.

In case you have trouble reading: Bad Religion, whose 16th album True North drops Jan. 22, tops the bill for opening night, with support from the Vandals and Guttermouth. The reunited Pennywise will follow up two sold-out Hollywood Palladium shows this month with an appearance at Musink's second night, along with Lagwagon and T.S.O.L. And psychobilly standout Reverend Horton Heat will close out the event, with warm-up sets from Lucero, the Headcat (featuring Lemmy from Motorhead) and Social Distortion guitarist Jonny Two Bags.

Among this year's featured tattoo artists will be Jack Rudy, Robert Atkinson, Small Paul, Tomas Garcia, Roman Abrigo, Bob Tyrrell, Robert Hernandez, Franco Vescovi and dozens more.

As you might expect, with Christmas around the corner, there isn't as much as usual about to go on sale.

• Romeo Santos: The NYC-born King of Bachata and former lead singer of Aventura, whose first leg of his Formula Vol. 1 tour was a runaway success that included three sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden, has revealed the itinerary for his encore lap. It includes an O.C. stop: April 12 at Honda Center in Anaheim. Tickets, $35-$125 (or $43.90-$144.45 including service fees), are on sale now, as are those for an April 14 show at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, $55.50-$195.50.

• Yes: The veteran English prog-rock outfit, still with Jon Davison replacing original vocalist Jon Anderson, will tour throughout winter playing three of its albums in full at every stop: epic-filled classics The Yes Album (1971) and Close to the Edge (1972) and the more concisely conceived Going for the One (1977).

The group – including bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White and keyboardist Geoff Downes – arrives March 6 at the Orpheum in L.A., $65-$125, on sale Jan. 11 at 10 a.m., with pre-sales running all day Jan. 10. Also catch them March 8 at Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, though at that gig Going for the One will be left off the set list.

Typically this is the time of year when hot show announcements are few and far between. Leave it to the savvy folks at the Observatory to upend that notion, as the Santa Ana venue just revealed several notable gigs for the first quarter of 2013.

Topping the list: Cat Power, aka idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, who will follow up her rather erratic Hollywood Palladium performance last month, behind her new album Sun, with an O.C. stop four times smaller than that gig. She plays Jan. 22, $35, on sale Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m.

Meanwhile, a raft of first-rate indie stars has been rounded up for Burger Records' second annual Burgerama festival, March 22-23.

• Imagine Dragons: Fresh off a terrific Night 2 opening set last weekend at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, this Vegas band has announced a return trip with shows March 18 at House of Blues San Diego, $22-$32, March 19 at House of Blues Anaheim, $20-$42.50, and March 20 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, $22.50. Atlas Genius and Nico Vega will open all shows, which go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

• Justin Bieber: The teen heartthrob from the Great White North rapidly sold out two Staples Center shows in October. So you can bet that tickets for two just-announced summer 2013 dates at the arena, June 24-25, will disappear just as fast when they go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Prices: $45-$95.

• Marilyn Manson: Unshackled from a seemingly ideal but ultimately ill-filled tour with Rob Zombie, the perennial bogeyman is headed back for two shows, Feb. 20 at City National Grove of Anaheim, $50-$60, on sale Friday at noon, and Feb. 21 at Club Nokia, $39.50-$69.50, on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Butcher Babies open both gigs. Also at the Grove: comedian Joe Rogan, with Joey Diaz, Feb. 22, $39.50-$49.50; and David Tutera, March 15, $35-$45 (or $100 for VIP). Both of those also go on sale Friday at noon.

• Peter Murphy: The Constellation Room in Santa Ana has nabbed something special from the goth-rock icon – back-to-back themed performances. On Dec. 29 he will perform the entirety of his 1989 album Deep, home to his biggest single, "Cuts You Up." The next night he will indulge an all-Bauhaus set. Tickets are $25.

Andrea Bocelli at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, December 2011, at a launch event for his self-named charitable foundation, which fights poverty and funds medical research. Photo: John Sciulli, Getty Images

• Andrea Bocelli: It's never too soon to make spring/summer concert plans, especially when tickets become available in time for holiday gift-giving. So, much like Fleetwood Mac's just-announced May dates, the beloved Italian tenor's return to the Hollywood Bowl on June 8, four months after his coming January release Passione, is about to go on sale, Monday, Dec. 10, at 10 a.m. Seats start at $72.50 and top out at $515.

• Lindsey Stirling: The O.C.-born violinist and YouTube sensation's star is on the rise. A month ago, not long after the release of her self-titled debut, she packed the Constellation Room in Santa Ana. Come spring she will step up to two of Southern California's better spots with 1,000-or-so capacities, House of Blues Anaheim on April 2, $15.50-$42.50, and the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on April 4, $22.50.

As former Register music critic Mark Brown revealed in his interview Monday afternoon with Stevie Nicks for MSN Music, Fleetwood Mac has confirmed what's been rumored more or less all year: The band will hit the road come spring, launching a two-month, 34-city trek across the U.S. on April 4 in Columbus, Ohio.

The Hall of Famers -- Nicks plus guitarist and co-vocalist Lindsey Buckingham and rhythm section namesakes John McVie and Mick Fleetwood (Christine McVie remains retired) -- have two Southern California appearances on their itinerary, May 25 at the Hollywood Bowl and May 28 at Honda Center in Anaheim.

Surrounding stops include San Jose's HP Pavilion on May 22, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 26 and Phoenix's US Airways Center on May 30. (For anyone without a calendar, Memorial Day is May 27.)

Tickets for select markets go on sale as soon as next weekend, but the Bowl and Honda shows probably won't become available for a bit more after that, perhaps not until 2013 is underway.

• Carrie Underwood: Missed seeing the country superstar's Blown Away Tour when it packed Staples Center last month? You're in luck. As was announced virtually the moment that show ended, Underwood will return to headline March 3 at Citizens Business Bank Arena, the venue she helped christen in 2008. Once again, roadmate Hunter Hayes opening. Tickets, $43.50-$66, go on sale Friday, Nov. 30, at 10 a.m.

• We Hate Hurricanes: Beck will join a lineup of funny people – Aziz Ansari, Sarah Silverman and Will Ferrell – for a Hurricane Sandy benefit Dec. 10 at Club Nokia, with proceeds going to AmeriCares. Mad Men star Jon Hamm will serve as MC, special guests are expected. Tickets, $38.50-$58.50, are on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.

Also at that L.A. Live venue: routinely acclaimed soul star Erykah Badu, Dec. 29, $45-$85; Excision, with Paper Diamond and Vaski, Feb. 9, $25-$39.50; and Queensrÿche ("starring Geoff Tate") celebrating the 25th anniversary of the prog-rock band's 1988 concept album Operation: Mindcrime by performing it in full, $19.50-$55. All of those are on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

• Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth: The notorious heavyweight champ brings his autobiographical Broadway success, directed by Spike Lee, to City National Grove of Anaheim on March 6. Tickets, $37.50-$67.60, go on sale next Friday, Dec. 7, at 10 a.m. Want to meet him? For $300, you get VIP access to a post-show meet-and- greet including a photograph with the iconic fighter. For $500, you also get a boxing glove he will sign on site.

We'd been expecting the itinerary for Bon Jovi's next U.S. tour since before Halloween, when Canadian and European routes were revealed within days of each other.

Now the entire rundown for the band's Because We Can tour, has fallen into place, launching from Connecticut in February, a month ahead of 12th album What About Now (their first in four years), and wrapping up stateside on April 25 at San Jose's HP Pavilion.

Logically, the Jersey boys' Southern California appearance is just before then, April 19 at Staples Center, with a stop the next night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Tickets for select dates go on sale Nov. 30, but probably not West Coast shows. Stay tuned for exact details.

Barry Manilow performs at the Hollywood Bowl in July. Photo: Kelly A. Swift, for the Register. Click for more.

This past August it was Neil Diamond who made a long-overdue return to the Greek.

Next summer it's Barry Manilow's turn.

The beloved entertainer, who is almost always on tour – he was the featured performer across Fourth of July weekend at the Hollywood Bowl – will play three nights at the Greek, June 14-16, marking his first stand at the Griffith Park venue since 1980. (Coincidentally, he turns 70 on June 17.)

Tickets, on sale Friday, Nov. 16, at 10 a.m., start as low as $9.99, but most seats range from $49.99 to $249.99.

November 12th, 2012, 11:20 am by KELLI SKYE FADROSKI, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Orange County-based punk outfit Death By Stereo headlines one of the food drive benefit concerts at Slidebar in Fullerton Nov. 15. Photo courtesy of the band.

The Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen in downtown Fullerton is hosting a series of concerts through the rest of the year to raise donations for local nonprofit organization Pathways of Hope. The restaurant, bar and concert venue – owned by Lit guitarist Jeremy Popoff – has partnered up once again with Pathways (formerly FIES: Fullerton Interfaith Emergency Services) to collect nonperishable food items, new blankets, toiletries, baby items and more this holiday season.

The charity has provided food, transitional living and support, and prevention services to the hungry and homeless in Fullerton and surrounding cities for more than 36 years, relying on the assistance of local businesses and volunteers to raise funds and collect donations year-round.

Though concerts at Slidebar have and will continue to be free to the public, for these gigs the venue will collect a minimum donation of five nonperishable food items, a $10 cash donation or one new blanket in exchange for admission to select concerts for the remainder of 2012 that are sure to fill to capacity.